Indescribably Delicious Banana Bread
jmw
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INGREDIENTS
  • Batter:
  • 1 cup butter
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 4 very ripe bananas, mashed * 6-7-inches long
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 4 tablespoons buttermilk
  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • Topping, put on after baking:
  • 6 tablespoons butter
  • 10 tablespoons dark brown sugar
  • 5 tablespoons milk
  • 1 cup or more, chopped pecans
DIRECTIONS
  1. Preheat oven to 350°
  2. Cream butter and sugar. Mash bananas, beat 2
  3. eggs and add to the bananas with vanilla and
  4. buttermilk; mix well and add to creamed
  5. butter and sugar.
  6. Sift together flour, soda and salt. Add to
  7. banana mixture, beat well.
  8. Pour into 2 greased and floured 9x5x3-inch
  9. loaf pans.
  10. Bake 45 to 50 minutes or until bread pulls
  11. away from sides of pan. Cool.
  12. To prepare Topping: Melt butter in saucepan.
  13. Add sugar and milk. Cook until very syrupy.
  14. Remove from heat and add chopped pecans.
  15. Pour over bread spreading to all the corners
  16. and place under broiler until bubbly and
  17. brown. Watch closely.
  18. Yield 2 loaves
  19. *I use the rottenest bananas I can find!
  20. Sometimes they are so black, my husband
  21. throws em out. That's just how ripe they
  22. are!